Life is funny like that: the road we take, Serling’s signpost ahead, the mis-directed arrow with no GPS capability, point indiscriminately missed. This is it - the lesson - deeply imbedded in Ahjamu Baruti’s collected notes, Scribe’s of Redemption: Letters from an Incarcerated Father to His Incarcerated Son. Baruti’s letters are passionate and profoundly insightful; his sociopolitical observations pensive and intellectual, tender and sharp. He is a scholar, …
Book Review: Monique Mensah’s ‘Inside Rain’
WINNER OF THE 2010 BEST BOOKS AWARD FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION!! So, as a matter of course, I found myself disenchanted, repulsed, and put off by the very thing that I once felt obligated to promote and support…. However… Monique Mensah’s new novel, Inside Rain, has sparked new interest in my once waning faith that …
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